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...however the pictures of the on-line PDF documents where really unreadable. This destroyed the otherwise very proffesional look. What happend? Where the pictures of low quallity to begin with or did the pdf converter mess it up, as usual?

Overall, i must say that it's a joy that it is so easy to convert stuff to pdf-files from almost everything in Kde. But pictures tend to get really bad. I guess it has to do with the gs tool in use ps2pdf, why obiously have some problems with the compression of pictures.

What I can't understan in this context, is why Scribus makes such a perfect jobb when converting to pdf's. Why can't Kde use whatever they are using?

I think converting to PDF is a very important part of computing, especially now when there is no standard Ofiice file format around. So please say tha there is something happening. I'm willing to help out as much as I can, just point me in the right direction.

because scribus generates the pdf-code directly from the docuement, whereas the "print as pdf"-file in the kprinter-dialog actually prints to a postsript file and converts this to a pdf-file.. some quality may get lost during this operation...

to get it right from the beginning, it should be implemented in QPrinter. That would be a huge step forward, if QPrinter would be able to directly output slick pdf-code without generating postscipt-code...

I use xtermset to change the background when I log into a remote with ssh computer. Is it possible to do the same with konsole? (the solution explained is not satisfactory for me as I sometimes log in computers located behind a gateway, thus not accessible directly)

I've also just managed to find a bug in netscape, Mozilla, Firebird, and maybe others. They freeze if you middle click on a PDF lin to open in a new tab or you select open in new tab or you ctrl click to open in new tab.

If anyone, has a bugzilla mozilla account please submit this bug for me, if not I guess I'll have to get one.

I tried the ssh tip, but the font keeps defaulting to Linux. I've tried setting it back to medium and clicked "save as default," but when I open a new session it opens it incorrectly again. Is there another way to save the font selection for a session?

o hold down the shift button when moving a button on the panel and it will "shove" other buttons around instead of switching places with them

o middle click a KMail folder that has an associated mailing list to create a new posting to the mailing list address

o select a bunch of files in Konqi, copy them, then paste into a text area (KWrite, KMail, even Konsole) and you get a nice list of URLs

o DnD from kdcop to a text area is handy, esp since you can switch between shell, C++ and Python modes

o fast browser identity and feature switching, as well as per-host settings (great for getting to the online bank =)

o kstart, which allows you to start programs on different desktops, control their positioning (fullscreen, maximized, etc), and window type (tool, menu, dialog or no decos at all (aka Override)), send them to the system tray, keep them out of the taskbar, etc...

I was more interested in a suggestion for an existing easy to use infrastructure, not a suggestion where one could possibly put it. For example I think a Wiki site is still too complex for a tricks site, the gnome hacks site by Jodrell is nice regarding simplicity but is imo lacking the ability to include descriptive pictures (if we want to target average users) as well as categorizing all submissions (if we want a huge databases to stay easy to look through).